Sentence examples for promptly commissioned from inspiring English sources

Although Hurlbert had parted company with The New York Times in 1860, Henry J. Raymond, its editor, realized that a full account of his adventures would attract readers, and he promptly commissioned a series of articles.

Because like Russian media makers a century later, the Brits realised that the most effective counter-propaganda repossessed the enemy's own images, and promptly commissioned the production a quarter of a million copies.

There has scarcely been a starker clash between public duties and private interests since Ernest Marples, owner of the motorway-building company Marples Ridgway, was made minister of transport, and promptly commissioned Dr Beeching to shut down the railways.

He made a ten-minute taster-tape and showed it to the BBC, who promptly commissioned six episodes.

Although there were some problems with the ship (the wing turrets had limited arcs of fire and strained the hull when firing a full broadside, and the top of the thickest armor belt lay below the waterline at full load), the Royal Navy promptly commissioned another six ships to a similar design in the and es.

After state investigators looking at court appointments questioned Ms. Krause on her relationship with Justice Lebedeff in 2001, she billed the judge $1,200 for four years of tax work and Justice Lebedeff paid promptly, the commission said.

"I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world," he declared, and promptly spent a fortune commissioning an estate on the outskirts of Detroit modelled on a Scottish baronial manor, complete with crenellations, turrets and a grotto.

PBS, who had sent him there in the first place, didn't get the film they had commissioned but did get the photographs that they posted and Douglas promptly won a Webby.

He commissioned the design of a futuristic sports car with gull-wing doors, named it after himself, and promptly went bankrupt.

Governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore commissioned McDonald in 1774 as a ranking military officer of an expedition (known as "McDonald's Expedition") to promptly organize and recruit settlers west of the Allegheny Mountains to defend settlements from Native American attacks.

Ms Perez promptly billed the association for some $57,000, and its sticker-shocked leaders coughed up $18,000.Unfortunately, the NCAA's higher-ups were outraged once they got wind of this improper use of bankruptcy court, and commissioned an independent inquiry.